Bordeaux Profit

More Champions League action tonight saw Bordeaux take on this years surprise package Cluj in Romania. I couldn’t resist the urge to take advantage of another matched bet, this time offering to match my £25 qualifying stake by effectively doubling my first bet.

Placing my £25 qualifying bet on Bordeaux to win, and laying against Bordeaux at Betfair gave me the following possible outcomes:

	Betfair	Bookmaker	Total
Bordeaux win	-£62.50	£57.50	-£5.00
Draw / Cluj win	£23.75	-£25	-£1.25

This bet was then matched by the bookmaker for free, with me laying against the free bet too:

	Betfair	Bookmaker	Total
Bordeaux win	-£41.90	£57.50	£15.60
Draw / Cluj win	£15.61	Free bet	£15.61

So overall the possible outcomes were:

	Betfair	Bookmaker	Total
Bordeaux win	-£104.40	£115	£10.60
Draw / Cluj win	£39.36	-£25	£14.36

As you can see it wasn’t a perfect matched bet as I stood to win more if Bordeaux hadn’t won as I was effectively betting some of my future profits on Cluj getting a result. Nevertheless I ended up with a profit of £10.60 and should hopefully get an additional £25 cashback too.

*** Dec-08 Update ***

I have now recieved the £25 cashback from Quidco taking my total profit to £35.60